Question

I have this:

var SomeNamespace = {
    Model: Backbone.Model.extend(),
    View: Backbone.View.extend({
        model: new this.Model, //<-- how do I properly create a new object from parent to here?
        myMethod: function()
        {
             alert(this.model.MyName);   
        }
    })

}

Where I added the comment, Model is not defined, I understand why, what I want to know is, how do I access the Model property of the parent?

Answer 1

var SomeNamespace = {
    Model: Backbone.Model.extend(),
    View: Backbone.View.extend({
        model: null, //<-- how do I properly create a new object from parent to here?
        myMethod: function()
        {
             alert(this.model.MyName);   
        },
        init: function(){//runs when creating an instance of SomeNamespace.View
             this.model = new SomeNamespace.Model();
        }
    })

}

because the Model is not defined yet, as opposed to other languages, you can not do that in JS. You need to initialize the var to Model in the constructor of the class.